Curbside Cafe @ Biopolis Road | Baker & Cook

Had brunch one Sunday with my parents @ Curbside Cafe:











Cafe Mocha (S$5):



Corned Beef Hash (S$12) - served with poached eggs and toasted sourdough. The corned beef hash portion is generous - too generous in fact hahaha there's actually a whole lot buried beneath the eggs. There's too few sourdough to complement it so it gets quite salty after awhile. Still good though!:



Bacon Corn Tomato (S$12) - this dish is basically scrambled eggs with bacon, corn and tomatoes. Very tasty, but there could be more bacon pieces. We also think that given the simplicity of this dish, it isn't worth paying S$12 for:



French Toast (S$14) - 3 slices of french toasts with orange yogurt and seasonal berries. My parents and I liked this - the toasts are soft and slightly chewy, overall the dish is sweet but contains a little tanginess from the orange peels:





RVCB (S$10) - homemade Red Velvet Cheesecake / chocolate brownie. I love this combination as it is really unique! The brownie is moist and dense, and the Madagascar Vanilla Bean ice-cream that comes with it is really yummy too:








Curbside Cafe
21 Biopolis Road, Nucleos
#01-21, Singapore 138567

Mon - Tue: 8:00am - 10:00pm
Thu - Sat: 8:00am - 10:00pm
Sun: 8:00am - 6:00pm
Tel: +65 8181 1805


Dressed for National Day but I was a day late hahaha:











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Treated my Mum to lunch at Baker & Cook @ Chip Bee Gardens the other day! Have always wanted to try this but somehow ended elsewhere everytime haha.





Cafe Latte (S$5):



Eggs Benedict with Salmon (S$19) - two poached eggs served on toasted B&C Pain Miche Bread, topped with hollandaise sauce + a hint of balsamic glaze + chilli oil. I've never eaten a 'spicy' eggs benedict before, and this was a first! Took me some time to get used to the peppery sauce but I grew to like it after awhile. The bread's a little hard for my liking but my Mum loved it a lot so she ate the other piece hahah:





Pancakes Stack (S$17) - 3 slices of pancakes served with a compote of caramelized apples, Greek yoghurt and lashings of homemade toffee sauce. The pancakes are a little bland and dry, but the apples make up for them as they are really moist, crunchy and sweet. The sauce doesn't really taste like toffee to me though, and the yogurt's pretty redundant imo hahaha:





French Toast (S$16) - new on the menu: thick toasts served with almond, berries, lemon curd, mascarpone and maple syrup. My Mum and I loved this! The toasts are soft and fluffy, and I like how the almonds go with them. The lemon curd is soooooo good too. Oh, and Baker & Cook's raspberry jam is to-die-for as well!! We couldn't stop taking spoons after spoons of it:








Baker & Cook
44 Jalan Merah Saga, #01-56
Chip Bee Gardens, Singapore 278116

Sun - Thurs: 7:30am - 8:00pm
Fri & Sat: 7:30am - 10:00pm
Tel: +65 6472 0998


And this was my outfit for that day! Relaxed-fit V-neck Tee c/o All Would Envy:

Othello's | Baker & Cook

This was last Wednesday's dinner with Alwyn, before my dance rehearsals. Sigh I'm forever going for dance with a full stomach:



The menu is reeeally confusing. It has sections like Small Bites, Sides, Appetisers, Salads which can essentially be grouped under 1-2 categories. Some items are also overlapping + the worst thing is these categories are scattered all over the menu which make it really hard to read:



Grapefruit juice (S$8) + Iced Latte (S$7):





Calamari Rings with Garlic Aioli (S$12) - this came as a shock to us hahahah. We totally weren't expecting the calamari rings to look like that. They taste so-so only too - the exterior's too soggy and the rings are just too thin for my liking:



Eggs Benedict (S$15) - consists of two poached eggs, honey-baked ham, creamed spinach, roasted tomato, mesclun salad and hollandaise sauce on toasted english muffins. I don't fancy the idea of having spinach with my eggs/bread... such veggies seem more like a 'dinner' kinda thing to me? Hahaha nevertheless they taste pretty good:





Othello's Beef Burger (S$19) - 160gm beef patty on a chargrilled burger bun, with lettuce, tomato, onion, cheddar cheese and fries with cocktail sauce. I didn't try the beef but Alwyn said it's good. I thought the fries are too salty too but he liked them:







Anyway, one of Othello's staff just stood and stared at my whole IG photo-taking process (the above 2 photos) which took about a few minutes. I like to many shots from different angles and arrangements so I always take a long time. But this staff just stood about 2 metres away and watched me the whole time. I felt so self-conscious and nervous but I couldn't possibly ask him to go away right?? Lol. Anyway, after I finally sat down (hahaha), he came over and asked: "The food is still hot right?" HAHAHAH wahlao damn embarrassing but okay. Weird experience.


Othello's
12 Greenwood Avenue, Singapore 289204

Mon - Thu: 11:00am – 11:00pm
Fri: 11:00am – 12:00am
Sat: 8:30am - 12:00am
Sun: 8:30am – 11:00pm
Tel: +65 6468 0939


Headed to Baker & Cook for desserts after that, which is just down the same stretch of road:











Chocolate Indulgence - this came as a disappointment :( I pictured something more chocolatey and rich, but this cake tastes really bland and airy. I took a few bites and gave up:



Blueberry Cheesecake - we love this!:



Nutella Panini (S$6) - $6 for this is such a rip-off because I seriously wasn't expecting them to use just normal white bread :/ But anyway it tastes better than the Chocolate Indulgence hahaha so I finished it:






Baker & Cook
77 Hillcrest Road, Singapore 288951

Sun - Thur: 7:00am - 8:00pm
Fri - Sat: 7:00am - 10:00pm
Tel: +65 6469 8834


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Anyway just some random midnight rants,
x. I don't know whether to take it as a compliment/insult when people assume/insist that my IG photos are uploaded using photos from my DSLR because they are 'so sharp and clear' (I only use my iPhone 4S btw). I take it as a compliment because well, it probably means they like my photos... right? But I feel insulted too because it means they think I can't take nice photos or achieve nice effects using my phone camera + apps? Please know that editing does wonders!

x. Always eating with the same person doesn't mean that I don't have other friends. It's just that I only have 2-3 food buddies (who can actually meet my huge eating needs!!!!) so whenever I go cafe-hunting, they are the ones with me. And since my IG consists mostly of food, those are the ppl that I will usually tag. Just because I don't post photos of all of my activities doesn't mean that I don't have other friends!! I believe my blog posts featured a bunch of my friends before.